James Angleton (1917–1987)
James Jesus Angleton, was born in 1917 in Boise, Idaho, and served in the CIA for more than 30 years, since its inception in 1947.
Maintaining the rank of counter-intelligence chief for more than two...
Dershowitz:”Obama stabbed Israel in the back!”
That’s not the way policy should be made, to get even in the lame duck period when there are no checks and balances and you don’t have to worry about an election. It’s the...
Turning Poems And Plays Into Data
The pervasive penetration of modern technology is now extending into areas of human life that one would never have associated with modern technology. I have talked in the past of the importance of protecting...
That Time a Jewess Joined the Daughters of the American Revolution
Abigail Minis was a widow, in her eighties and Jewish, but that didn’t stop her from doing her part to fight the British during the Revolutionary War. She put her skills and resources as...
New York City Asks for $35 Million Reimbursement for Trump Security
Protecting President-elect Donald Trump is costing New York a pretty penny, and the city is asking for its money back.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said at a press conference on Monday that...
How Elie Wiesel inspired the Free Soviet Jewry movement
On my bookshelves there are two rows of volumes on the Soviet Jewry movement. Squeezed in among the tomes is a small, well-worn paperback with pages no longer attached to the spine, “The Jews...
Annual Doggie Street Festival
The Doggie Street Festival is the love child of Jude Pauline Artenstein, a San Diego based independent filmmaker and wife of producer/director Isaac Artenstein. She founded the annual festival eight years ago as a...
The Kidnapped Goddess, The Hidden Light, and Hanukkah
Persephone was a unique goddess in Greek mythology. She lived an idyllic and lonely life in communion with Nature, far from the other gods and the endless intrigues of Zeus’ gang. The most eligible...
One reason that Trump won the election
Trump! Trump! Trump! That’s practically the only story that is being discussed by the news analysts in the United States these days. And it’s practically the only story that is...
The 23 best colleges for Orthodox Jews
As an Orthodox Jew who is a recent college graduate (and proud alumna of NYU), I know firsthand the challenges of being an observant Jew on a college campus. At many campuses, Shabbat, holidays and...